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For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

I write my music.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

I consider myself a composer.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.